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Video Disk Recorder Revision History
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2000-02-19: Version 0.01 (Initial revision).
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2000-03-11: Version 0.02
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- Fixed compilation with only DEBUG_REMOTE=1.
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- Menus now use colors.
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- Support for "Red", "Green", "Yellow", "Blue" buttons.
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- Channels and Timers can now be added, deleted and moved.
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- Basic record/play file handling support (no actual record/playback yet).
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2000-04-15: Version 0.03
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- Actual record/replay now works.
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- Dropped the idea of different "recording qualities" (a 36GB harddisk is
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able to store some 18 hours in full quality, so we don't really need that).
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- Termination signals are now caught and the program cleans up before exiting.
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- Support for CICAM.
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2000-04-24: Version 0.04
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- Changed name from 'osm' to 'vdr' to avoid mixups with the 'oms' program that
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appears to be in use with DVD replay.
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- Implemented a channel display in the top menu line.
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- Implemented replay progress display (press "Ok" when replaying to bring it up).
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- Implemented direct channel selecting by pressing the numeric keys.
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- Added several 'const' keywords to please stricter compilers.
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- The repeat function for the remote control no longer adapts dynamically
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to the timing of the RCU (this sometimes caused the repeat function to
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kick in too early).
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- Channel selection is now blocked when recording or replaying.
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- Improved process handling.
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2000-05-27: Version 0.05
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- Support for more than one DVB card.
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- Simultaneous record and replay (with two DVB cards).
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- Instant recordings no longer get the name "instant". They now get the name
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of the channel, with a prepended '@' character.
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- Timers that are not given an explicit Name now use the channel name with
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a prepended '@' character.
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- If an instant recording is currently active, the Main menu now contains
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an option to stop that recording.
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- Timers are now only processed when the Menu is not active. So after editing
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a timer the effect will take place only after the menu has been closed.
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In order to avoid missing a timer event by inadvertently leaving the menu
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open, the menu will be closed automatically after about two minutes of
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inactivity.
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- If a recording is currently being replayed, the Main menu now contains an
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option to stop replaying.
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- Displaying the recording DVB interface status in the decimal points of the
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RCU display.
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- Reduced the number of remote control keys. Modified the key assignments for
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the PC keyboard to better resemble the "up-down-left-right-ok" layout on
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menu controlling remote control units.
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2000-07-25: Version 0.6
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- Added support for LIRC remote control (thanks to Carsten Koch!).
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There are now three different remote control modes: KBD (PC-Keyboard), RCU
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and LIRC. See the INSTALL file for information on how to enable either of
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these modes. The default mode is now KBD, not RCU as before (to make it
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work immediately even if there is no actual remote control).
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- Fixed small bug in dvbapi.c that was causing some channels (many on hotbird)
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not to be correctly tuned (thanks to Plamen Ganev!).
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- Now clearing the replay buffer in search forward/back, which results in
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faster reaction.
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- The 'Recordings' menu is now listed alphabetically (thanks to Carsten Koch!).
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- The new 'epg2timers' tool (thanks to Carsten Koch!) can be used to convert
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an EPG "merkliste" page (http://www.tvtv.de) to vdr timer entries.
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- The new 'xtvrc2vdr' tool (thanks to Plamen Ganev!) can be used to convert
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'xtvrc' channel files into 'vdr' format.
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- When more than one timer matches at the same time, the first one in the list
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with the highest 'Priority' is selected.
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- The MANUAL section on "Programming the Timer" has been filled in.
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- The year in the "Recordings" menu as well as in the progress display during
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replay has been reduced to 2 digits to allow more space for the recording's
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title. In the internal file structure the year is still stored with 4 digits,
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so there will be no problem at the next turn of the century ;-)
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- Channel names and timer filenames can now contain blanks. To avoid problems
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with file names that contain blanks, all blanks in recording file names are
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converted to underscores.
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- The polarization can now be given in uppercase or lowercase characters in
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'channels.conf'.
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- Fixed buffer initialization to work with DVB driver version 0.6.
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- Implemented the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP) to control
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the VDR over a network connection.
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- Implemented command line option handling.
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- The program can now run in full background mode by using the --daemon option.
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- Added a "summary" field to the timers (thanks to Carsten Koch!).
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This field can contain a descriptive text of the programme and will be
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displayed when the "Blue" key is pressed on a recording that was created by
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this timer. If the text contains the special character '|', a newline will
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be inserted at that place. When pressing "Ok" on a timer that contains a
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summary field, the summary will be displayed. To edit such a timer the "Red"
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key must be pressed. Timers without a summary still go into Edit mode when
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pressing "Ok". The summary field can only be filled in directly by editing
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the 'timers.conf' file with a text editor, or by defining/modifying the timer
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via the SVDRP interface.
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2000-08-06: Version 0.61
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- When scrolling through a list it now moves a full page up or down when the
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cursor reaches the top or bottom of the menu (thanks to Heino Goldenstein!).
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- Added missing '#include <sys/stat.h>' to recording.c.
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- The video directory can now be defined with the command line option -v.
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- There can now be more than one video directory (in case you have several
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disks).
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- Fixed learning key codes for PC keyboard.
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- New command line option '-l' to set the log level.
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- Times in timers.conf are now always printed with 4 digits (leading '0').
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- Slow forward/back mode (thanks to Guido Fiala!).
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- The "Up" key in replay mode no longer restarts replay at the very beginning,
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but rather resumes normal replay mode after a "pause", "forward" or "backward"
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operation. Use the "Skip -60s" function repeatedly to go back to the beginning
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of the recording.
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- Improved reaction on user input in fast/slow forward/back modes.
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- No more upper limit for the value of 'Pnr'.
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- Checking if the video card is really a DVB card.
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- New SVDRP command UPDT to update an existing timer (or add a new one if it
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doesn't yet exist).
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- New version of the 'epg2timers' tool (with a modified channel list).
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- Bugfix in closing window in DEBUG_OSD mode.
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2000-09-03: Version 0.62
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- The Makefile now defines DVBDIR to easily point to where the DVB driver
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source is located.
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- When switching channels the current/next information is now displayed if
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available (thanks to Robert Schneider). Since there is now more information
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to read when switching channels, the timeout for displaying it has been
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increased from 2 to 5 seconds (remember that this info can always be recalled
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by pressing the "Ok" button).
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For this feature to work it is necessary that the 'Pnr' parameter in the
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channel setup ('channels.conf') is set to the proper value. This has been
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done for some of the channels in the default 'channels.conf'. Some other
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parameters in the default 'channels.conf' have also been updated, so please
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make sure your timers still use the correct channels!
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2000-09-10: Version 0.63
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- The new "Setup" menu allows the user to configure several parameters to his/her
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personal taste (see MANUAL for details).
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- Workaround for a driver timing problem in cDvbApi::Cmd(), which sometimes caused
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the OSD to no longer be displayed (thanks to Niels de Carpentier).
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- Added the '-m486' option to the compiler call.
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- If a channel name contains a colon (':') it is now replaced with a '|' in
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'channels.conf'.
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- Not everybody appears to like the "page scrolling" mechanism introduced by
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Heino Goldenstein in version 0.61, so this is now configurable via the "Setup"
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menu.
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- The new 'dvbrc2vdr' tool (thanks to Plamen Ganev!) can be used to convert
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'dvbrc' channel files into 'vdr' format.
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- Channels can now be "grouped" (thanks to Plamen Ganev!). See MANUAL for details.
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There is currently no mechanism to define and maintain "Channel groups" via
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the menu, so you'll have to insert "Channel group" control lines into your
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'channels.conf' file manually (for example with a text editor).
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- Started a new file named FORMATS with a description of the various file
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formats used by VDR.
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- The "Primary DVB interface" can now be chosen via the "Setup" menu.
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- Display of the "current/next" information when switching channels can now
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be disabled via the "Setup" menu.
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- The "current/next" display now only shows those lines that actually contain
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information.
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- When directly selecting a channel by entering the channel number, the digits
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entered so far together with the name of that channel are displayed on the
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OSD (suggested by Martin Hammerschmid).
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2000-09-20: Version 0.64
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- NOTE: If you are using DVB driver version 0.7 you need to load the dvb.o
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module with option outstream=0, so your insmod statement should read
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'insmod dvb.o outstream=0'. This is currently necessary because 'vdr'
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still works with AV_PES data.
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- Video files now have the 'group read' bit set.
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- Fixed handling errors in 'readstring()'.
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- Handling SIGPIPE and re-establishing handler after intercepting a signal.
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- The configuration files are now by default read from the video directory.
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This can be changed by using the new '-c' option. Make sure you copy your
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current '*.conf' files to your video directory ('/video' by default), or
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use "-c ." to get the old behaviour of loading the configuration files
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from the current directory.
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- Waiting for input is now handled by a common function, which improves
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response time on user actions. As a consequence the EIT data may sometimes
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not be displayed, but this will change later when cEIT runs as a separate
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thread.
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- The new SVDRP command 'HITK' (thanks to Guido Fiala!) can be used to 'hit'
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a remote control key. Establish an SVDRP connection and enter HITK without
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a parameter for a list of all valid key names.
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- The new SVDRP command 'GRAB' (thanks to Guido Fiala!) can be used to grab
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the current frame and save it to a file.
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- The new SVDRP commands 'OVL*' can be used to control video overlays (thanks
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to Guido Fiala!). This is mainly for use in the 'kvdr' tool (see the 'kvdr'
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page at http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala).
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- If the name of the video directory used with the '-v' option had trailing
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slashes, the recording file names have been damaged. Trailing slashes are
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now silently removed.
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- Fixed a buffer overflow in EIT parsing.
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- Added a security warning regarding SVDRP to the INSTALL file.
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- Fixed 'confirm' dialog.
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- The daemon mode (option '-d') now no longer works with REMOTE=KBD (there
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is no stdin in daemon mode, so KBD makes no sense - plus it sometimes
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crashed).
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2000-10-03: Version 0.65
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- Modified LIRC interface to better handle repeat function.
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- Faster OSD by first writing into a bitmap and then sending the entire bitmap
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to the DVB driver at once (requires the patch 'dvb.c.071.diff' to be applied
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against the version 0.71 DVB driver file 'dvb.c').
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- When switching channels the channel is now immediately displayed, and the
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current/next information is shown as soon as it becomes available.
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- No longer displaying the year in the 'Recordings' menu to save space for the
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title.
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- The 'Recordings' menu now displays a '*' to indicate new recordings.
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- Added the description of the timers.conf file to the FORMATS file (thanks to
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Bastian Guse).
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- Displaying as much as possible of the current/next info (dropping characters
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that would display only partially).
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- In normal viewing mode the '0' key now toggles between the current and the
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previous channel.
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2000-10-08: Version 0.66
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- Remote control data is now received in a separate thread, which makes things
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a lot smoother.
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- Repeat and release of remote control keys is now explicitly distinguished.
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- In replay mode the search forward/back and skip functions now have two modes:
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Pressing the key shortly and releasing it starts the function, and pressing it
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again stops it. Pressing and holding down the key starts the function and
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releasing the key stops it.
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- The '@' character that marks an "instant recording" can now be turned off
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in the "Setup" menu (thanks to Matthias Schniedermeyer).
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- Pressing the "Back" button while replaying now stops replaying and brings up
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the "Recordings" menu (suggested by Carsten Koch). This can be used to easily
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delete a recording after watching it, or to switch to a different recording.
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- The "Recordings" menu now places the cursor on the last replayed recording, if
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that file still exists.
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- The "Blue" button in the "Main" menu can now be used to "Resume" a previously
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stopped replay session (suggested by Martin Hammerschmid).
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- The low and high LNB frequencies can now be changed in the "Setup" menu.
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2000-11-01: Version 0.67
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- The EIT information is now gathered in a separate thread.
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- The sytem time can now be synchronized to the time broadcast in the DVB data
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stream. This can be enabled in the "Setup" menu by setting "SetSystemTime" to
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1. Note that this works only if VDR is running under a user id that has
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permisson to set the system time.
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- The new item "Schedule" in the "Main" menu opens VDR's EPG (thanks to Robert
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Schneider). See the MANUAL file for a detailed description.
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- The new setup parameters MarginStart and MarginStop define how long (in
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minutes) before the official start time of a broadcast VDR shall begin
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recording, and how long after the official end time it shall stop recording.
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These are used when a recording is programmed from the "Schedules" menu.
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- The delay value in the dvb.c.071.diff patch to the driver has been increased
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to '3', because on some systems the OSD was not displayed correctly. If you
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are running an already patched version 0.71 driver and encounter problems
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with the OSD, please make sure the parameter in the ddelay call is '3', not
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'2'.
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- Fixed initializing the RCU remote control code (didn't work after switching
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on the system).
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- Problematic characters in recording names (which can come from timers that
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are programmed via the "Schedules" menu) are now replaced by suitable
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substitutes.
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2000-11-19: Version 0.68
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- Date and time in the title of an event info page are now always right adjusted.
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- The 'current channel' is now handled device specific (in case there is more
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than one DVB card).
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- The 'SetSystemTime' option in the "Setup" menu is now shown as "yes/no".
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- Implemented "internationalization" (see 'i18n.c' for information on how to
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add new languages). Thanks to Miha Setina for translating the OSD texts to
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the Slovenian language.
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- Fixed learning keys on the PC keyboard (display oscillated).
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- Fixed a timing problem with OSD refresh and SVDRP.
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- Avoiding multiple definitions of the same timer in the "Schedule" menu (this
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could happen when pressing the "Red" button while editing the timer).
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- There can now be a configuration file named 'commands.conf' that defines
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commands that can be executed through the "Main" menu's "Commands" option
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(see FORMATS for details on how to define these commands).
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- Added a 'fixed' font for use with the output of system commands.
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- The 'Priority' parameter of the timers is now also used to interrupt a low
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priority timer recording if a higher priority timer wants to record.
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- A timer recording on a DVB card with a CAM module will now be interrupted
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by a timer that needs to use this specific DVB card to record an encrypted
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channel, if the timer currently occupying this DVB card doesn't need the
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CAM module (and thus can continue recording on a different DVB card).
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- The "Yellow" button in the "What's on now/next?" menus now displays the
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schedule of the current channel from that menu.
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- All DVB cards in a multi-card system now write their EIT information into the
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same data structure.
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- If there is more than one DVB card in the system, the non-primary cards are
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now used to periodically scan through the channels in order to keep the
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EPG info up-to-date. Scanning kicks in after 60 seconds of user inactivity
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(timeout in order to keep user interactions instantaneously) and each channel
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that has the 'pnr' parameter defined in 'channels.conf' is switched to for
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20 seconds. If there is only one DVB card in the system, that card will start
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scanning after 5 hours (configurable through the "Setup" menu) of user inactivity
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and will switch back to the channel it originally displayed at the first sign of
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user activity. Any scanning will only occur if that particular card is not
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currently recording or replaying.
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- Now shifting the 'Subtitle' info into the 'ExtendedDescription' on stations
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that don't send the EIT information correctly (like, e.g., 'VOX').
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- Implemented a 10 seconds latency when removing files.
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- Fixed unwanted reaction on the "Green" and "Yellow" button in the "Event" display.
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- Implemented 'Transfer Mode' to display video data from the DVB card that actually
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can receive a certain channel on the primary interface. This is currently in
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an early state and may still cause some problems, but it appears to work nice
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already.
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2001-01-18: Version 0.70
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- VDR now requires driver version 0.8.1 or higher.
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- Recordings are now saved in PES mode. Note that you now need to install the
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driver *WITHOUT* 'outstream=0'! This is the default when you 'make insmod' in
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the DVB/driver directory.
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Old recordings (in AV_PES mode) can still be replayed (as long as the driver
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still supports replaying AV_PES files). The only limitation with this is that
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in fast forward/back mode the picture may be slightly distorted and there may
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be sound fragments.
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- The EPG data is now dumped into the file /video/epg.data every ten minutes.
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Use the Perl script 'epg2html.pl' to convert the raw EPG data into a simple
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HTML programme listing.
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- Fixed handling of channel switching with the "Blue" button in the "What's on
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now/next?" menus.
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- Fixed saving the MarginStop setup parameter.
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- Fixed missing initialization in cConfig.
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- Implemented "On Disk Editing".
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- There is no more default 'timers.conf' file.
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- Added Italian language texts (thanks to Alberto Carraro).
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- Fixed starting a replay session when the program is currently in 'Transfer
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Mode'.
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- Fixed setting/modifying timers via SVDRP with empty summary fields.
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- Fixed a problem with recordings that have a single quote character in their
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name (this is now mapped to 0x01).
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- Changed the value for Diseqc to '0' in the default 'channels.conf'.
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- Fixed displaying channels and recording status in the RCU's LED display when
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a recording is interrupted due to higher priority.
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- Implemented safe writing of config files (first writes into a temporary file
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and then renames it).
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- In case the video data stream is broken the log message will come only every
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5 seconds.
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- The current channel is now saved in the 'setup.conf' file when VDR is cancelled,
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and will be restored next time it is started (thanks to Deti Fliegl).
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- The EIT scanning thread is now locked when switching channels to avoid problems.
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- Encrypted channels can now be selected even without knowing the PNR (however, it
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is still necessary for the EPG info).
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2001-02-24: Version 0.71
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- Fixed 'Transfer Mode' in cases where a non-primary interface was switched to
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a channel that only the primary interface can receive (which could happen in
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the EPG scanner).
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- The EPG scanner now starts with the first channel (it used to start with the
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second channel).
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- Reacitvated setting the PNR.
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- Adapted the frame scanning to the new muxing of the driver.
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- The new compile time option REMOTE=NONE can be used to compile VDR without
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any remote control support (for applications where it shall be controlled
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exclusively via SVDRP).
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- The new command line option -D can be used to define which DVB interfaces
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a certain instance of VDR shall use.
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- The "Left" and "Right" keys are now used to page up and down in lists (thanks
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to Martin Hammerschmid). Since the "Timers" menu already uses these keys to
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(de)activate timers, this functionality is not available there.
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- The "Main" and "Commands" menu now support "hotkeys", which means that if the
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first non-blank character of a menu item is a digit in the range 1..9, that
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item can be selected by pressing the respective numeric key on the remote
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control.
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- The channel data in 'channels.conf' now contains the teletext PID (thanks to
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Dave Chapman). Existing files will be read normally (and the teletext PID set
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to 0), but once they are written back (due to some channel editing) the file
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will have the new format.
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- The EPG scanner now scans each transponder only once per cycle.
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- Deleted recordings are now automatically removed from disk after a while (not
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only when disk space is being needed for a new recording).
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- Fixed repeat function in LIRC remote control.
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- Changed the MAXDVBAPI macro in dvbapi.c to 4 in order to directly support the
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maximum possible number of DVB cards.
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- The 'Ca' parameter in the default 'channels.conf' has been changed from '2'
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to '3' because the VDR prototype now has 3 DVB cards (and currently the CAM
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module only works if it is inserted into the last DVB card).
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- The "Now", "Next" and "Schedule" menus now remember the current channel and
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restore the list when switching between them.
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- The "Green" button in the "Recordings" menu can now be used to rewind a
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recording and play it from the very beginning.
|
||
- Fixed handling ':' in timer filenames and '\n' in timer summaries (see FORMATS).
|
||
- When removing recordings empty directories are now removed from the video
|
||
directory.
|
||
- Added the "schnitt" tools from Matthias Schniedermeyer.
|
||
- New SVDRP command MESG to display a short message on the OSD.
|
||
- The Perl script 'svdrpsend.pl' can be used to send SVDRP commands to VDR.
|
||
- SVDRP can now immediately reuse the same port if VDR is restarted.
|
||
- SVDRP now has a timeout after which the connection is automatically closed
|
||
(default is 300 seconds, can be changed in "Setup").
|
||
- The compile time switch VFAT can be used to make VDR avoid the ':' character
|
||
in file names (VFAT can't handle them). Do 'make VFAT=1' to enable this.
|
||
- Support for DVB-C (thanks to Hans-Peter Raschke and Peter Hofmann).
|
||
See the INSTALL file for more information about the use of VDR with cable.
|
||
- Fixed an occasional segfault in the EIT processor.
|
||
- A value of '0' for the EPGScanTimeout setup parameter now completely turns off
|
||
scanning for EPG data on both single and multiple card systems.
|
||
- New setup parameter "PrimaryLimit" that allows to prevent timers from using the
|
||
primary DVB interface in multi card systems. Default value is 0, which means
|
||
that every timer may use the primary interface.
|
||
- The 'active' field of a timer will now be explicitly set to '1' if the user
|
||
modifies an active timer (see FORMATS for details).
|
||
- The new command line option -w can be used to activate a watchdog that makes
|
||
VDR exit in case the main program loop does not respond for more than the
|
||
given number of seconds. This is mainly useful in combination with the new
|
||
'runvdr' script that restarts VDR in case is has exited.
|
||
|
||
2001-04-01: Version 0.72
|
||
|
||
- Fixed SVDRP commands LSTC and LSTT to make them return an error message if
|
||
no channels or timers are defined.
|
||
- Enhanced 'channels.conf.cable' (thanks to Hans-Peter Raschke).
|
||
- Fixed switching to another channel via the EPG while a recording is being
|
||
replayed.
|
||
- Fixed a memory leak in the EIT processor that happened when the system time
|
||
was set.
|
||
- Removed some redundant code from the cListBase destructor.
|
||
- Fixed internationalization of some Main menu texts.
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' after the recent changes of Premiere World (thanks
|
||
to Axel Gruber).
|
||
- Redesigned the ring buffer to make it work with two separate threads for
|
||
input and output (also prepared for using a remultiplexer).
|
||
- Fixed setting system time from transponders.
|
||
- Fixed a segfault in the Schedule menu in case there is no EPG information.
|
||
- The 'runvdr' script now kills any leftover vdr threads before restarting it.
|
||
- Fixed a problem with Daylight Saving Time when displaying the times of
|
||
recordings.
|
||
- Added Dutch language texts (thanks to Arnold Niessen).
|
||
- The new command line option -t can be used to set the controlling terminal
|
||
(thanks to J<>rgen Sauer). This is especially useful when starting VDR through
|
||
an entry in /etc/inittab (see INSTALL).
|
||
- Since the CAM module only works if it is installed in the "highest" DVB card,
|
||
recordings now search for a free DVB card from lowest to highest index (as
|
||
opposed to the previous "highest to lowest" search) in order to not use the
|
||
CAM card for FTA recordings unless necessary. This is only important for
|
||
systems with three or more DVB cards.
|
||
- Added the "statdvb2vdr" tool from Hans-Peter Raschke.
|
||
- Fixed a segfault that sometimes happened when killing VDR.
|
||
- VDR now returns an exit status of '2' in case of an error at startup, instead
|
||
of terminating with 'abort()' (which caused a core dump).
|
||
- SVDRP now also works with clients that don't do line buffering (like the
|
||
Windows 'telnet').
|
||
- Empty lines in config files no longer cause error messages.
|
||
- New SVDRP command LSTE to list the EPG data.
|
||
- The SVDRP HELP command now prints the topics in several columns.
|
||
|
||
2001-06-02: Version 0.80
|
||
|
||
- VDR now requires driver version 0.9.0 or higher.
|
||
- Switched to the "new API" (thanks to Dave Chapman for his great support in
|
||
this task).
|
||
- New setup parameter "LnbSLOF" that defines the switching frequency of the LNB.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the EPG scanner with more than one DVB card.
|
||
- Fixed checking for free disk space, so that it works with NFS mounted drives.
|
||
- Files are now created with mode 644.
|
||
- Fixed checking the exit status in the 'runvdr' script.
|
||
- Activated loading the driver in 'runvdr'. Please read the comments in 'runvdr'
|
||
for details.
|
||
- The new "emergency exit" feature automatically triggers a restart of VDR (if
|
||
used with 'runvdr', otherwise it simply exists) if
|
||
* tuning the channel for a recording fails
|
||
* no useful data is received within the first 1MB of a recording
|
||
* no data is received within a recording for more than 5 seconds
|
||
This should make sure that a recording is successfully restarted after any
|
||
problems.
|
||
- Processing the EIT data is now disabled during replay and 'Transfer Mode' in
|
||
order to avoid video and audio glitches (there appears to be a bandwidth
|
||
problem somewhere in the driver/firmware/hardware).
|
||
- Due to the reduced amount of OSD memory provided by the driver the number of
|
||
lines in the OSD had to be reduced by 2. By rearranging some of the display
|
||
items the amount of visible information remained the same as before, though.
|
||
If your DVB card has even less memory (which would result in only the
|
||
channel switching display and the replay progress display being visible, but
|
||
no Main menu), try reducing the constant 'MenuLines' in dvbapi.h (currently
|
||
'13') even further.
|
||
- There are two new setup parameters to define the "Default Priority" and
|
||
"Default Lifetime" when creating a new timer event.
|
||
- The meaning of the "Lifetime" parameter has been modified: a value of '99'
|
||
now means that the recording will live "forever", and a value of '0' means
|
||
that the recording has no guaranteed lifetime and will be deleted whenever
|
||
a new recording with higher priority needs disk space.
|
||
- Updated version of Matthias Schniedermeyer's 'schnitt' tools.
|
||
- New 'master-timer' tool (thanks to Matthias Schniedermeyer).
|
||
|
||
2001-06-12: Version 0.81
|
||
|
||
- Fixed handling the case where the driver reports EAGAIN during recording,
|
||
but no data comes within 5 seconds.
|
||
- Fixed EPG scanning on single DVB card systems.
|
||
- There can now be two audio PIDs per channel, which can be toggled via the
|
||
"Green" button in the "Main" menu. The "Edit Channel" menu therefore now
|
||
has two audio PID fields (Apid1 and Apid2). By default, Apid2 is 0, which
|
||
means there is no alternate audio track.
|
||
- Fixed replaying in case the driver reports EAGAIN.
|
||
- Now 'runvdr' checks if the driver is already loaded (thanks to Henning
|
||
Holtschneider).
|
||
- Fixed removing recordings with Lifetime = 99.
|
||
- Improved channel switching.
|
||
|
||
2001-06-16: Version 0.82
|
||
|
||
- Increased timeout until reporting "broken video data stream" when recording.
|
||
- Increased amount of non-useful data received by cRemux before assuming the
|
||
recording will fail.
|
||
- If there are two audio PIDs defined for a channel, both audio tracks will
|
||
now be recorded and can be selectively replayed later. See the FORMATS file
|
||
for details on how these different audio tracks are stored in the recorded
|
||
files. In order for this to work properly you need to use a driver version
|
||
dated 2001-06-16 or later, where the default PES filter buffer size has been
|
||
reduced. This will create packets for the second audio track that are small
|
||
enough to multiplex smoothly with the video data.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in the editing mechanism (didn't work with recordings that
|
||
consist of more than one data file).
|
||
- The compile time switch VFAT has been fixed to recognize the ':' character
|
||
in recording names, too.
|
||
- Setting all PIDs to 0x1FFF before switching channel.
|
||
- New setup parameter "VideoFormat" to define the aspect ratio of the tv set
|
||
in use (4:3 or 16:9).
|
||
|
||
2001-06-26: Version 0.83
|
||
|
||
- Avoiding "Device or resource busy" error message when setting PIDs.
|
||
- Added Portugese language texts (thanks to Paulo Manuel Martins Lopes).
|
||
- Recording and replaying Dolby Digital (AC3) sound.
|
||
- No longer getting stuck when a channel doesn't sync while switching
|
||
with the 'Up' and 'Down' keys.
|
||
|
||
2001-07-22: Version 0.84
|
||
|
||
- Fixed video packet scanning to make it recognize the whole range of
|
||
allowed video packet ids.
|
||
- Added an additional "emergency exit" in case channel switching doesn't
|
||
work several times in a row (when will the driver finally become stable
|
||
enough to allow rock solid channel switching??).
|
||
- No longer sending a Diseqc command if the Diseqc value for a given channel
|
||
is '0'. Previously this caused problems with some multi-switches (thanks to
|
||
Markus Lang and Ulrich R<>der).
|
||
- When switching channels by entering the channel number via the numeric keys
|
||
on the remote control, the channel number displayed is now followed by the
|
||
'-' character to indicate that additional digits can be entered.
|
||
- Increased the timeout for numeric channel switching from 500ms to 1s.
|
||
- Fixed handling the "Green" button in the "Schedules" menu for channels that
|
||
have a second audio PID.
|
||
- Fixed high system load when displaying a still picture in replay.
|
||
- Fixed a hanging SVDRP connection if the client dies without issuing QUIT.
|
||
- Increased the frame buffer size to 192KB.
|
||
- Removed a superfluous VIDEO_FREEZE call in the replay buffer.
|
||
- Added French language texts (thanks to Jean-Claude Repetto).
|
||
- Modified OSD to use 2bpp windows (4 colors) in order to work with less
|
||
memory, allow a larger OSD window and be faster. The group separators in the
|
||
"Channels" menu had to be given a different color.
|
||
- Moved the channel display to the bottom of the screen.
|
||
- Displaying the frame counter in the replay progress display only when editing
|
||
a mark.
|
||
- Fixed handling characters above 0xEF in SVDRP.
|
||
- Fixed a possible crash in parsing incorrect lines in 'channels.conf'.
|
||
- New channel settings for Premiere World (Dolby Digital PIDs not yet
|
||
available).
|
||
- Increased the buffer for key names received from LIRC (thanks to Andre
|
||
Valentin).
|
||
- Fixed handling a channel group separator at the very beginning of the
|
||
'channels.conf' file.
|
||
|
||
2001-07-29: Version 0.85
|
||
|
||
- Added Norwegian language texts (thanks to J<>rgen Tvedt).
|
||
- Increased the usleep value in cDvbOsd::Cmd() to 5000 in order to work on
|
||
systems with the KURT/utime-patch (thanks to Guido Fiala).
|
||
- Changed the check whether the driver is loaded in runvdr to check for the
|
||
'dvb' module (the last one loaded).
|
||
- Fixed repeat function with LIRC (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Increased the upper limit for the symbol rate to 30000 (thanks to Ulrich
|
||
R<>der).
|
||
- Made the position of the channel display configurable (thanks to Stefan
|
||
Huelswitt).
|
||
- Made the width and height of the OSD configurable (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- DiSEqC support can now be generally enabled/disabled in the Setup menu. This
|
||
may be necessary if your multiswitch gets irritated by the default DiSEqC
|
||
codes '0' (thanks to Markus Lang).
|
||
- Fixed replaying in case there is no index file.
|
||
- Fixed jumping to an editing mark when replay has been paused.
|
||
- Avoiding unnecessary code execution in the replay progress display (thanks
|
||
to Guido Fiala).
|
||
- When entering time values the digits that still have to be entered are now
|
||
shown as '-' (as in "1-:--").
|
||
- When setting an editing mark while the progress display is not active, the
|
||
display will now be turned on for a short while to indicate the successful
|
||
setting of the mark.
|
||
- Updated 'channels.conf' for Premiere World (thanks to Helmut Sch<63>chner).
|
||
Check your timers if you use this channels.conf file, since the sequence of
|
||
several PW channels has been changed.
|
||
- Changed the color of "Info" messages to "black on green" and that of the
|
||
confirmation messages (like "Delete...") to "black on yellow".
|
||
- Fixed display with DEBUG_OSD (it still crashes sometimes, esp. when replaying,
|
||
but I can't seem to find what causes this... any ideas anybody?).
|
||
- Avoiding audio/video distortions in 'Transfer Mode' by no longer actually
|
||
tuning the primary interface (which can't receive this channel, anyway).
|
||
Apparently the driver gets irritated when the channel is switched and a
|
||
replay session is started immediately after that.
|
||
- Increased timeout until reporting "video data stream broken" when recording.
|
||
- Explicitly switching back to the previously active channel after ending a
|
||
replay session (to have it shown correctly in case it was in 'Transfer Mode').
|
||
|
||
2001-08-06: Version 0.90
|
||
|
||
- Modified the display of the channel group separators (thanks to Markus Lang
|
||
for this suggestion).
|
||
- Added support for replaying DVDs (thanks to Andreas Schultz). See INSTALL for
|
||
instructions on how to compile VDR with DVD support.
|
||
- Fixed replay progress display in case replay is paused while watching an
|
||
ongoing recording.
|
||
- Ringbuffer uses semaphores to signal empty/full conditions.
|
||
- Fixed calculating the timeout value in cFile::FileReady() (thanks to
|
||
Wolfgang Henselmann-Weiss).
|
||
|
||
2001-08-12: Version 0.91
|
||
|
||
- Fixed displaying colored button texts that are too long.
|
||
- Suppressing replay progress display when replaying a DVD.
|
||
- Updated channels.conf.cable (thanks to Uwe Scheffler).
|
||
- Updated French OSD texts (thanks to Jean-Claude Repetto).
|
||
- Improved AC3 decoding when replaying DVDs (thanks to Matjaz Thaler).
|
||
- Fixed handling DVB card indexes when using only one card in a multi-card
|
||
system.
|
||
- Changed the 'Eject DVD' button text to a simple 'Eject' (the German text
|
||
was too long...).
|
||
- Made the font file generation more stable (thanks to Artur Skawina).
|
||
- Changed the default value for the "DiSEqC" setup parameter to "off".
|
||
- The new command line option '-E' can be used to define where the EPG data
|
||
shall be written to. This is especially useful if VDR runs in a system
|
||
that turns off the video disk when it is not used, and therefore needs
|
||
to write the EPG file to a ramdisk (or turn off writing it alltogether).
|
||
See 'vdr --help' for details.
|
||
- Making sure the disk is up and running before starting recording (this
|
||
is important for systems that turn off the video disk when it is not used).
|
||
- Added the "Jump" function in replay mode (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
See the description of the "Red" key in MANUAL under "Replay Control" for
|
||
details.
|
||
- Fixed displaying editing marks when toggling a mark in "pause" mode.
|
||
- If there is no free DVB device to record, the log message will now be given
|
||
only once.
|
||
- Made I/O more robust by handling EINTR (thanks to Werner Fink).
|
||
|
||
2001-08-18: Version 0.92
|
||
|
||
- The "channel not sync'ed" log message now also lists the card number.
|
||
- Now using the EIT services from 'libdtv' (thanks to Rolf Hakenes), which
|
||
provides EPG information for NVOD ("Near Video On Demand") channels.
|
||
- Doing some bug fixing on the EPG data (some tv stations apparently have
|
||
their own idea on how to fill in the data...). The level up to which EPG
|
||
bugs are fixed can be controlled with the EPGBugfixLevel parameter in the
|
||
"Setup" menu (see MANUAL for details, and cEventInfo::FixEpgBugs() in eit.c
|
||
for the actual implementation).
|
||
- Fixed broken recordings after a driver buffer overflow.
|
||
- Fixed the chirping sound after Pause/Play of a DVD (thanks to Andreas
|
||
Schultz).
|
||
|
||
2001-08-26: Version 0.93
|
||
|
||
- The menus and the channel display now show the current date and time.
|
||
- The new Setup parameter MaxVideoFileSize can be used to customize the
|
||
maximum size of the recorded video files.
|
||
- Fixed a bug in handling repeating timers that record over midnight (the
|
||
calculation of matching timers has been completely rewritten).
|
||
- Timers that are currently recording are now marked with '#' in the "Timers"
|
||
menu.
|
||
- Timers are now sorted in the "Timers" menu, showing the sequence in which
|
||
they will be recording. This can be disabled in the "Setup" menu. Note
|
||
that the "Mark" button doesn't work if timers are displayed sorted.
|
||
|
||
2001-09-02: Version 0.94
|
||
|
||
- Implemented automatic shutdown (see INSTALL and MANUAL for details).
|
||
- New SVDRP command NEXT to show the next timer event.
|
||
- The new remote control key "Power" can be used to turn the VDR machine
|
||
off (this requires the presence of the '-s' option).
|
||
- Fixed code for the default "Ok" button on the PC keyboard (was 0x162 on
|
||
the "good old" keyboards (with the F-keys at the left side), while it changed
|
||
to 0x15E on the newer keyboards).
|
||
- When a recording is edited, the summary information (if present) is now
|
||
also copied.
|
||
- When a recording is running on the primary interface, any attempt to change
|
||
the current channel will now lead to a "Channel locked" message.
|
||
- The main program loop now first checks whether any timer recordings are
|
||
finished, before starting a new timer recording. This is important in case
|
||
one timer ends at the same time another timer starts.
|
||
- New setup parameter OSDMessageTime to define how long an OSD message shall
|
||
be displayed.
|
||
- The "File" parameter of a timer can now contain the '~' character to store
|
||
the recording in a hierarchical directory structure. The '~' character has
|
||
been chosen since the file system's directory delimiter '/' may be part of
|
||
a regular programme name (showing the directory hierarchy in the "Recordings"
|
||
menu will follow later).
|
||
- Repeating timers now create recordings that contain the 'Subtitle' information
|
||
from the EPG data in their file name. Typically (on tv stations that care
|
||
about their viewers) this contains the episode title of a series. The
|
||
subtitle is appended to the timer's file name, separated by a '~' character,
|
||
so that it results in all recordings of this timer being collected in a
|
||
common subdirectory. You can disable this with the 'UseSubtitle' parameter
|
||
in the "Setup" menu.
|
||
- The summary information is now taken from the EPG data at the actual time of
|
||
recording (no longer at the time the timer is created in the "Schedule" menu).
|
||
If a timer already has summary data, that data will be used. If you have
|
||
repeating timers in your 'timers.conf', you may want to make sure they do
|
||
NOT contain any summary information (that's the last field in the timer
|
||
definitions). Use your favourite text editor to delete that information.
|
||
That way every recording will store the actual summary data at the time of
|
||
the recording.
|
||
|
||
2001-09-15: Version 0.95
|
||
|
||
- Fixed behaviour in case the shutdown didn't take place (there were many
|
||
"next timer event at..." messages in that case).
|
||
- Reduced the default value for MinEventTimeout to 30 minutes.
|
||
- Fixed detecting manual start in shutdown feature.
|
||
- An error message is now displayed in case the Transfer Mode can't be
|
||
started because the necessary DVB card is currently recording (or there
|
||
is no DVB card that can access this channel).
|
||
- Fixed toggling channels with the '0' key in case the "Ok" button has been
|
||
pressed to display the current/next information.
|
||
- Pressing the "Power" key now always initiates the shutdown sequence (after
|
||
user confirmation in case of a recording timer), event if there is currently
|
||
a menu or a replay session active. Note the additional remarks in INSTALL
|
||
regarding the values of the two parameters given to the shutdown program
|
||
in case of a currently recording timer.
|
||
- Switching through channel groups with the "Left" and "Right" keys now
|
||
always starts at the group that contains the current channel.
|
||
- Implemented "Multi Speed Mode" (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Implemented backtracing to hit the right spot after fast forward/rewind
|
||
(thanks to Stefan Huelswitt).
|
||
- Implemented replay mode display (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt, with a few
|
||
rewrites by kls).
|
||
- Changed the size of all input buffers used to parse config files or receive
|
||
SVDRP commands to the same value of 10KB. This allows long strings to be
|
||
used in the 'summary' field of a timer, for instance.
|
||
- The pipe to the Dolby Digital replay command (option '-a') now closes all
|
||
unused file descriptors in the child process to avoid crashing when the
|
||
OSD is used (thanks to Andreas Vitting).
|
||
- Switched to the driver's new tuning API (VDR now requires a driver version
|
||
dated 2001-09-14 or higher).
|